Reasoning with Jehovah's Witnesses

26. The Kingdom

 

 

Introduction 

Preface 

Part 1: The Nature of God 

1. The Deity of Christ 

2. The Personality of the Holy Spirit 

3. The Trinity 

Part 2: The Nature of Man 

4. The Spirit of Man 

5. The Soul of Man 

6. The Nature of Death 

7. Resurrection 

8. The Nature of Hell 

Part 3: God's People 

9. Israel 

10. The 144,000 

11. God's Organization 

12. The Great Crowd 

13. The Faithful and Discreet Slave 

14. Persecution 

Part 4: Man's Salvation 

15. The Gospel 

16. Being Born Again 

17. Salvation 

18. Justification 

19. Sufficiency of Christ's Redemption 

20. Relationship with Christ 

21. Christian Freedom 

22. Witnessing 

Part 5: The Last Days 

23. The Return of Christ 

24. Watchtower Chronology -- The Year 1914 

25. The Rapture 

26. The Kingdom 

27. The New Heaven and New Earth 

Bibliography 

Appendix A: Disassociation Letter 

Appendix B: The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures 

Scripture Index 

Subject Index 

26. The Kingdom

Jehovah's Witnesses believe that:

a. Christ will not be physically present on earth during the millennium.13

b. The 144,000 of Revelation chapters 7 and 14 will rule invisibly with Christ during the millennium.14

c. The great crowd of Revelation chapter 7 will live through the great tribulation and enter directly into the cleansed earth.15

d. Humans will inhabit the earth during the millennium.16

e. The "earthly hope" is the Biblical hope for Christians alive now.17

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Q1. Will Christ be physically present on earth during the millennium?

See THE RETURN OF CHRIST, Q3

See ISRAEL

Q2. Who will be ruling with Christ during the millennium?

See THE 144,000, Q3

Q3. Will anyone live through the great tribulation and enter directly into the cleansed earth?

See ISRAEL

See THE GREAT CROWD

Q4. Will humans inhabit the earth during the millennium?

See ISRAEL

Q5. What is the Biblical hope for Christians alive now?

See THE RAPTURE, Q1

* * *

Summary:

a. Christ will be physically present on earth during the millennium.

b. The bride of Christ will rule with Christ during the millennium.

c. There will be those who will live through the great tribulation and enter directly into the cleansed earth.

d. Humans will inhabit the earth during the millennium.

e. The rapture is the Biblical hope for Christians alive now.

Endnotes:

13. Aid to Bible Understanding, pp. 551, 1336

14. Reasoning from the Scriptures, p. 137

15. Watchtower, 12/1/85, p.17

16. Ibid., pp. 17-18

17. Ibid.

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